Living Systems Lab Research Group

Description

As a research and knowledge exchange group we situate our practice in the context of the planetary boundaries and ethics of care. Our research inquiries are centred on learning from complex, interconnected and dynamic living systems to inform the production of new knowledge in the fields of arts and design. We position our practices as a means to grow and nurture a flourishing multi-species world.

Keywords

Living Systems, Biodiversity, Planetary Boundaries, Ecosystems Functions, Biodesign, Bioart, Regenerative design, Flourishing, Multi-Species, Interspecies,  Interconnected, One Health, Biocomputation, Ethics of Care, Emergence, Networks.

Our research group was established in 2013 and has since grown, bringing together researchers from diverse disciplines - artist, architect, designer, environmental scientist, sociologist, bioengineer, biologist - and PhD students committed to learn with and from living systems to advance creative, cultural and ecological knowledge.

As a group, we operate like a slime mould, a collective of individual cells. We come together to produce shared outputs such as conferences and exhibitions, but we also lead our own inquiries as individual researchers within the Living Systems Lab. Our research operates in hybrid spaces between the studio, the laboratory and the field.

We produce practice-based research, curation, exhibitions, conferences and publications at international level. We regularly collaborate with academic and cultural organisations, universities and research groups to exchange and learn with our academic peers and biocentric communities. See Research and Knowledge exchange for more info.

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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

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University of the Arts London
London